So in some backwards kind of way I got a writing acceptance this week….here’s the story…

A couple weeks ago my issue of Tony (Time Out New York to the uninitiated) came and it was an issue titled “Awwww….Ewwww” and on the stark white cover was a picture of a cute little kitten (Awwww) and a disgusting realistic (and large) cockroach (Ewwww). The problem is that this horrible cover caused me to think, every time I looked at it that the realistic looking cockroach was the real thing. Within 24 hours I had been forced to put that issue in the recycling bin, which pissed me off as I didn’t get to read the whole thing.

So I did something unusual for me, I wrote a letter (an email really, and really only like four or five sentences…I’m not sure that qualifies as a letter) bitching about the cover. It was dripping with sarcasm, my email, which I hope they “got”. Anyway, long story short I got an email from the TONY letters department and my “letter” is not only being published, but I won ‘Letter of The Week’ (which basically means I get published, identified as Letter of the Week, and I get Time Out Publication of my choice – I chose 1,000 books to change your life – and I got it yesterday – talk about fast service!). Anyway, I suspect it will be in this week’s issue (today probably) and if not today than next Wednesday.

While this is nice/fun news, I sure would trade it for some other acceptances…*sigh*.

Also of note is that this is only the second time I have ever written in to complain/ask questions/give commentary to a publication, and both times I have written in, I have been published (the other time was to an X-Men comic book when I was but a teenager). I guess I have found my calling. Unfortunately it seems rather unfulfilling.

If you live in the NYC area check for my TONY Letter today, it’s incredibly exciting. Not really.